| Full text | |
| Author(s): |
Sampaio Martins, Pedro Pablo
;
McNamee, Sheila
;
Guanaes-Lorenzi, Carla
Total Authors: 3
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | MARRIAGE AND FAMILY REVIEW; v. 50, n. 7, p. 17-pg., 2014-01-01. |
| Abstract | |
Beginning with an understanding of family as a social construction, this article suggests that people actively make meanings about family during social interchanges. The idea is that family can be conceived as a discursive achievement: Family is defined in terms of what people who are drawing on various available socially produced discourses describe together as family. We propose that different realities regarding family are created via social processes of negotiating meaning in the interactive moment. Therefore, there are many different versions of family, and each of them has diverse implications for the social world. Examples of these implications for psychological theories, research, and family therapy are also presented, in considering how they might be useful in the field of psychology. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/02365-0 - Meanings constructed by relatives of mental disorders patients about family participation in treatment |
| Grantee: | Pedro Pablo Sampaio Martins |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |